Well I've had my Sirius satellite radio system installed for about 2 months now and I was never truly impressed with the quality of the FM modulation coupled with the sh!tty Bose HU....

I finally broke down and bought a Sirius ready Kenwood KDC-MP522 head unit ($250) and that coupled with the Bose adapter sounds fukin AWE-SOME!!!!

I am finally hearing what Bose was meant to sound like. The system overall sounds 10000X better than stock...the highs are high, lows are low....I actually am proud to own a Bose system now.

Oh and yeah, the sirius actually ROCKS!!!! I 1000000% recommend Sirius for all who like to hear music all the time.

Kudos to Polo for hookin up his boy to do my install...it was actually easier than planned. Yes we did have a rough start and a few stumbling blocks, but at least my car isn't a guinea pig like Polo's is



j/k Marco

 

 

 

c'mon man we know you have a digital camera lets see the install!
WHEELMAN

 

woh! just a sec.. i was told i had to replace all my bose speakers if i wanted to use an after market radio.. I have an awesome panasonic thats just sittin at home.. what is this "bose adapter"? link?

 

You will need the ROEM-NIS2. and to ground one wire out of the wiring harness to keep your trip computer. If you want steering wheel contlos, you will have to buy another adapter. You can get the ROEM-NIS2 at www.affsave.com fro less than $60 shipped

 

NT2SHBBY...did you get to keep your steering wheel controls and trip computer?

 

You will need the ROEM-NIS2. and to ground one wire out of the wiring harness to keep your trip computer. If you want steering wheel contlos, you will have to buy another adapter. You can get the ROEM-NIS2 at www.affsave.com fro less than $60 shipped

 

no steering wheel control.....I refuse to pay $60 for another adapter..... besides my Kenwood came with a cute remote...

I have trip computer...you ground the BROWN wire off the steering wheel control harness...

 

what does the ROEM-NIS2 do?

do i need some kind of mounting hardware also?

if ya cant tell im a n00b at this

 

there are to brown/white wires in the harness....don't snip the wrong one. the wrong one is the - wire to the driver front speaker. again, the guinea pig learned the wrong way.

 

It's an adapter to connect the OEM Nissan harness into an aftermarket head unit. This way you don't have to splice wires, you just plug everything together. This might help you understand...

Factory setup
Nissan harness --> Back of factory stereo

Aftermarket setup
Nissan harness --> ROEM-NIS2 --> Back of aftermarket stereo


Like maximamaybe said, you need a 2nd adapter if you want to use the steering wheel controls with the aftermarket head unit. You'll also need a trim kit to make the aftermarket head unit fit and look nice.

 

For the Bose system to really shine, replace the Bose speakers. That will be the best sounding Bose system ever.

 

so its 60 bux for some damn wires!!!! geez.. i at least would have thought it had some electronic funtionality. its just a regular old wiring harness :/ i dont remember my last one costing near that much.

 

It might not look like much, but it takes a pretty sophisticated peice of engineering to integrate a decent stereo with this bose crap. I can't wait until it is all gone.

 

bumped up for pix:

 

Nice... bumpin luda thats the way to do it heehhehe spray that dash kit piece and SHIFT_bling.
WHEELMAN

 

I think it looks good as it is.....

 

And to think I'm still waiting for pics of the headlights/fogs still... I feel so deprived.....

 

Im thinkin silver to match the vents and other accents in the car. post a bigger pic. get in the back and shoot it from between the seats.
WHEELMAN

 

Busa...It's a conspiracy I tell ya...once they pull you in, there's no going back....

Actually the prob is, I wanna take night shots, but once I pull the car in the garage from coming home from work at 5pm, I get lazy and I dont wanna pull it out when it gets dark




(actually I get too stoned to wanna pull it out... )

 

well get u some munchies so you have to pull it out!!!

 

Looks good shbby! I bet it sounds better now. I just dunno if I could live without the Titanium trim. Has anyone matched that paint successfully???

 

Steve, its great bro....HUGE improvement over stock...

 

Looks good! So the difference in the Sirius sound quality is that noticable versus FM modulation?

 

dude...seriously.... two words... HELL YEAH!

i was actually contemplating dumping sirius when it was FM modded....now, I'm all about SIRIUS!!!

SIRIUS 4 LIFE!

 

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Wait NT2SHBBY<< did u just say cute remote>> we might have to talk later about u saying cute

haha J/P

J

 

my badd..... so bro..when u poppin down from dirty jerzee to hear my ****?

 

yeah i was going to but now i gotta pay to get this dman leather fixed go to my thread in a lil im about to tell teh price and sh*T,,, but ill pm and let u know .....and dawg...NYC is "dirty" too haha

 

dirty jerzee rhymes... dirty NYC don't...

 

I think it is time for a new HU! I hardly listen to CD's any more so losing the 6 disc changer would not affect me too much. I don't even know if the tape player works. Never tried it. Sirius has been the only thing that I have listened to for the last 4 months!

 

haha its all good but yo the system looks tight... im liking it and i didnt know there was a 60$$ adapter for the steering controls i had a HOW TO saved (but cant find it ) that told me directions to hook it up without and adapter

 

 

What about Cd sound - Does it get better with this set-up?

 

definitely clearer...more vocals and more midrange

 

I have that How-to...PM me your email address if you want me to send it to you.

 

Do you really need the adapter to hookup an aftermarket hu, in order to use your Bose speakers? or is this just in case you wanna take the radio out in the future and put the bose back in?(trade-in)

 

the adapter is plug and play on the factory harness end....you can pull it out and return back to stock..